A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.32 · 6.32

You are demanding and unjust

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— És muito exigente e injusta para commigo, Malvina,— disse Leoncio depois de um momento de pasmo e hesitação.

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'You are very demanding and unjust toward me, Malvina,' said Leôncio after a moment of astonishment and hesitation.

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His pause — 'pasmo e hesitação' — is the tell that her ultimatum landed; then he recovers into the oldest move of the cornered, flipping the charge: SHE is the unjust one. The narrator lets us see the calculation behind the wounded tone.

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